SHANGHAI & NESS ZIONA, Israel–Slamtec (www.slamtec.com), a leading global service provider and industry pioneer in autonomous localization and navigation systems today announced that it has selected Newsight’s CMOS Image sensors (www.nstimg.com) for its advanced SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) solutions.

In support of ongoing efforts to provide efficient, cloud ready, open data formats for the use of lidar data, the USGS National Geospatial Program and its associated 3D Elevation Program is transitioning all of its lidar data distribution files to LAZ format by September 30, 2018.

YellowScan, designer, developer and producer of UAV LiDAR solutions for professional applications, continues to expand its presence in the United States with the opening of a new office located at 150 S. State St. Suite 100 Salt Lake City, UT 84111, USA.